Living the Corvette life!!
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Burning Brakes
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From: NC
2022 C2 of the Year Finalist - Modified
Living the Corvette life!!
Just having fun at GoodGuys Raleigh autocross. Won the street machine class and street machine shootout. We also ran this past weekend at the Nashville GoodGuys event. We won the street machine class, but only finished 3rd in the street machine Shootout. Living the Corvette life, lol.
This is our 68 that we're building for autocross next year. Slow process, but we keep plugging. 712Hp/606 torque LS engine
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St. Jude Donor '05
damn that 68 has a stance!!!! See this?
You can spend on them and drive them too, this guy is enjoying them and getting his $ worth by DRIVING it. They are just cars.
Man I wouldnt even paint that 68 it looks badazz the way it is. Pure attitude.
You can spend on them and drive them too, this guy is enjoying them and getting his $ worth by DRIVING it. They are just cars.
Man I wouldnt even paint that 68 it looks badazz the way it is. Pure attitude.
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Drifting
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From: perth Aus w.a
2020 Corvette of the Year Finalist (stock)
C3 of Year Winner (stock) 2019
Nice job Lakebum , that looks like great fun .The corvettes seem to do alright at the autocross events ,Danny pop comes to mind .Great spectator sport especially with the older cars .Thanks for sharing 
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Burning Brakes
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2022 C2 of the Year Finalist - Modified
Thanks, Sug
Danny is a good friend and one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet.
The GoodGuy events we run are for 1987 and older cars on Fridays and Saturdays, so there are a lot of neat older Pro Touring style cars at each event.
They run later model cars on Sundays.
BTW, I sold a '70 triple black Buick GrandSport convertible to a fellow named Alan in Perth several years ago.
My '66 is still on the stock chassis with basically stock style suspension. Semi coil overs in the front so I can adjust ride height, and I'm still running the stock style
steel rear spring. It has LS power with a 5 speed tremec.
Danny is a good friend and one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet.
The GoodGuy events we run are for 1987 and older cars on Fridays and Saturdays, so there are a lot of neat older Pro Touring style cars at each event.
They run later model cars on Sundays.
BTW, I sold a '70 triple black Buick GrandSport convertible to a fellow named Alan in Perth several years ago.
My '66 is still on the stock chassis with basically stock style suspension. Semi coil overs in the front so I can adjust ride height, and I'm still running the stock style
steel rear spring. It has LS power with a 5 speed tremec.
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: NC
2022 C2 of the Year Finalist - Modified
Thanks, Chris.
We started with a 68 t-top firewall back shell and a 75 bare chassis. We made it a convertible so I could fit in it with a roll bar.
It'll have a LS7 based engine and a jerico dog gear 4 speed. We're using some Van Steel suspension pieces and coil overs all around. It'll lean towards the Pro Touring look and be street legal, but it'll be mainly for autocross.
I grew up when the L88 Owens Corning cars were current and I always wanted to build a c3 platform with some of my own ideas incorporated.
My buddy, USALT1, is a partner in this car, and he brings a lot of ideas to this project. His background is computers and electronics, so that helps as those are my weak points.
We've known each other since being in a corvette club together the mid seventies, and we've raced together on and off thru the years.
So, hopefully, we'll have it finished up this fall so we can start the process of tuning the suspension, etc.
Bill Sr
We started with a 68 t-top firewall back shell and a 75 bare chassis. We made it a convertible so I could fit in it with a roll bar.
It'll have a LS7 based engine and a jerico dog gear 4 speed. We're using some Van Steel suspension pieces and coil overs all around. It'll lean towards the Pro Touring look and be street legal, but it'll be mainly for autocross.
I grew up when the L88 Owens Corning cars were current and I always wanted to build a c3 platform with some of my own ideas incorporated.
My buddy, USALT1, is a partner in this car, and he brings a lot of ideas to this project. His background is computers and electronics, so that helps as those are my weak points.
We've known each other since being in a corvette club together the mid seventies, and we've raced together on and off thru the years.
So, hopefully, we'll have it finished up this fall so we can start the process of tuning the suspension, etc.
Bill Sr
Last edited by lakebumm; May 12, 2019 at 01:29 PM.
